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　　Two men are in hospital living 1 door to each other. 2 are alive because of 3 sixteen-year-old boy, a high school student 4 Jim Brand. One of the men he 5 was his father; the other was his boss.

　　Driving to the park with his son last Sunday, 6 suddenly 7 a pain in his chest（胸部）Jim 8 him to their family doctor, who 9 that he should be sent to the hospital at once. Mr Brand said it was not 10 , but Jim begged him to 11 the doctor's advice 12 they got to the hospital, Mr Brand had a had 13 attack. If he had been anywhere 14 , he would have 15 .

　　 Two days 16 , as Jim drove out to the store where he worked part time, he saw a man 17 away. Then his boss, Mr Green staggered（摇摇晃晃）out to Jim's 18 and fell down 19 it. He was injured（受伤）seriously by that time. Jim rushed him to the hospital just 20 to save his life.

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　　Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrases for greeting people, but as an American, I always found myself 1 to speak freely when it came to seeing guests off at the door. Just a good-bye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the 2 books. So I would smile and nod, bowing like a Japanese and searching madly for words that would 3 over the visitor's leaving and make them feel they would be 4 to come again. In my unease, I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husband's kindness.

　　Then finally, listening to others, I began to pick up the phrases that 5 relationships and sent people off not only successfully but also skillfully.

　　 6 for the Chinese includes a lot of necessary habitual practice. Although as a 7 , I'm not expected to observe or even know all the rules, I've had to learn the expressions of politeness and 8 at a leaving-taking.

　　The Chinese feel they 9 see a guest off to the farthest possible point--down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the 10 bus stop. I've sometimes waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off, 11 he's gone to the bus stop and waited for the 12 bus to arrive.

　　That's very well, but when I'm the guest being seen off, my protests are always 13 My hostess or host, or both, insists on 14 me down the stairs and well on my way, with my repeating the“Don't 15 to see me off at the every landing” . If I try to go fast to 16 them from following, they are simply out to the discomfort of having to run after me. Better to accept the inevitable（不可避免的）.

　　Besides, that's going against Chinese 17 ,because haste (doing things quickly) is to be avoided. What do you say when you 18 someone? Not“Farewell or Godspeed（祝福）” , 19 “Go slowly” .To the Chinese it means“Take care”or“Watch your 20 ”,or some such caution（谨慎）, but translated literally（字面意思）it means“Go slowly”.

　　As I drove my blue Buick into the garage, I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was 1 too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the 2 space. That left 3 enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home 4 , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space--too close to my car, 5 . At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had 6 and I shouted at her, “Can't you see you're not 7 me enough space? Park farther over.” Banging（猛推）open her door into 8 , the driver shouted back:“Make me!” 9 this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my 10 . Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?”I soon found 11 . The next day the woman 12 a note on her windshield（挡风玻璃）:

Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,

　　I'm sorry my mistress（女主人）shouted at yours the other day. She's been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn't sing anymore while 13 . It wasn't like her to scream 14 Fact is, she'd just got bad news and was taking it out on you too. I 15 you and your mistress will 16 her.

Your neighbor,

Blue Buick

　　When I went to the 17 the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:

Dear Blue Buick,

　　My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so 18 because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I'm glad we can be 19 now.

Your neighbor,

Yellow Oldsmobile

　　After that, whenever Blue Buick 20 Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and smiled.

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　　The “show business” attracts many young people. 1 , only very few can hope to become famous. Talent（天才，天资）is not 2 . Without a good manager, a performer can never hope to succeed. 3 is also important in this bussiness. The best tailor in the world will not be successful if he makes old-fashioned clothes. In exactly the same way, a performer must 4 his act in order to 5 the taste of the moment. This is 6 for actors and dancers, but perhaps most of all for 7 .

　　“Pop” stands for “popular”, and a pop singer has to 8 to become popular. He must either give the public what they want, or he must find a (n) 9 way of singing that will attract their attention. Even when he has succeeded, and his records are sold everywhere, he cannot 10 . He must work even harder than ever to 11 popular, 12 there are always younger singers trying to become famous.

　　The life of successful pop singers is 13 . He can only relax when he is 14 , because everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper written for the “fans”, 15 are the most important people in the world for a singer. They buy his records, they go to his concerts, and they make him 16 But they 17 be very troublesome, too. They sometimes steal handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and even cut off the unfortunate singer's hair. Many singers have been forced to hide. A pop singer has to spend a lot of money on 18 , because he must look smart. He must have a nice car. And 19 , he must always keep smiling for the benefit of 20 .

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　　With their shiny, grey bodies, dolphins（海豚）appear to be large fish．____1____, they are really warm-blooded mammals. Although they can stay under the water for up to 15 minutes ____2____, the dolphins must come up to breathe air through a hole on top of their heads.

　　Dolphins are social animals. Many of them even ____3____ around humans. In addition to being playful; they are helpful to men. For example ____4____ 400 B.C. the Great poet Arion was saved from ___5____ by a dolphin. From then until now, dolphins have been helping swimmers, ____6__ in trouble. Swimmers, however ,are not ___7____ humans they help. In some parts of the world, they help men ____8____ fish.

　　Dolphins are very clever. Its brain is even larger than a human's. Therefore, some people think a dolphin ____9__ smarter than a man, but ____10___, brain size is not the only measure of cleverness. Besides, measuring dolphin's cleverness in other ways is not possible ___11____ men cannot talk with them. But we can almost ____12____ that dolphins can talk with each other. They make different ____13____ which seem to be at least a form of language. Up to now men ____14___ able to find out how dolphins are talking. So no one really knows what they are thinking. If we could talk with them, perhaps they could teach us to be ___15____ they seem to be.

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　　Animal, ___1___insects, do not have a language like ___2___. They do not talk to each other in words sentences. But if we watch them, we can see that they do have ways of communicating with ___3___.

　　Can you see the rabbits' tail? When rabbits see this white tail ____4____ up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit ____5____ them something ____6___ making a sound. It has given them a signal（信号）.

　　Many other animals use this kind of language. When a cobra（眼镜蛇）is angry, it raises its hood（头罩）and makes itself look fierce. This warns other animals. When a bee has found some food, it ___7____ to its home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does ___8___ dance in the air. This tells the bees ___9____ the food is.

　　Some animals say things by making sound. A dog barks（吠）, for example, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs（咕噜咕噜叫）when ___10___. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes we human beings speak ____11___.

　　We make sounds like “Oh”or “Ah!” when we are frightened or pleased or when we drop something on our toes.

　　___12____ we have something that no animals have ____13____ words which have the meanings of things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other all kinds of different information in words and sentences, ___14____ no other animals can do. No other animals have ___15____ language as we have.

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　　Marlin was a poor man． Once he was out of work and was trying to find a ____1_____. One day he read in the newspaper that a man was ____2_____to work in a zoo. He thought that it would be ____3____ to work in a zoo because he liked animals. He thought that ____4____ animals would be very interesting. So he was very glad and went to the ____5_____ of the zoo and asked for the job.

　　“You look ____6____ a smart boy, ” said the manager. “You can start work tomorrow.”

　　Marlin said OK and went home ____7____. The next day he went to the manager and asked ____8____ he was to do. The manager told him that their monkey had just died and it would ____9____ two months before they could get ____10____ one, so they wanted him to ____11____ the monkey's place.

　　On hearing this, Marlin got angry and shouted：“You want me to take the place of a monkey! Take his place yourself. You look ____12____ like a monkey than I do.”

　　“Don't take it like that, ”said the manager. “I know you don't look like monkey, but we'll ____13____ you up.”

　　Marlin thought about it for a while. _____14_____ he did not like the idea, he had to make ____15____ after all. So he took the job in the end.

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　　In some parts of the United States, ____l____ is easy. But farming has always been ____2____ in the northeastern corner of the country, ____3____ is called New England.

　　New England has many trees and thin, rocky ____4____. Anyone who has wanted to start a new ____5____ has had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down trees. The ____6____ job has been digging the stumps（树桩）of the trees ____7____ the soil. Then the farmer has had the difficult job of ___8____ stones from his land.

　　This work of removing stones never really ____9____, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the ____10____ soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to ___11____ removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep ____12____ more stones.

　　That is why stone walls are used ____13____ fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high; a man can easily ____14____. But they keep the farmer's cows ___15____his neighbor's cows.

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　　I have been interested in animals since before I could remember. When I was four years old, I stayed on a farm where I helped to ____1____ hens' eggs. I became ____2____, and asked those around me,“Where is the hole big enough for the eggs to come out?” When no one answered to my ____3____, I hid in a henhouse for some four hours to ____4_____. When my mother saw me rushing toward the house, she noticed my ____5_____. Instead of scolding me for disappearing for so long (the family had even ____6____the police!), she sat down and listened to me tell the wonderful story of how a hen ____7____ an egg. Then my childhood dream was as strong as ever：I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient ____8____.

　　I was ____9____ enough to meet the late（已故的）Louis Leakey, who gave me this ___10____ chance to find out about the wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal world. When I go back there, I see some ___11____ that I knew in the sixties, and one individual（个体）, her name is Fifi. She was a little baby when I arrived in ____12____ and she's about 43 years old now, she's the matriarch（女家长）of her community. When I look into her eyes, I think“this is my oldest chimpanzee friend, and she and I ____13____ memories that no other being in the world shares because they're not there any more.” And when I look into those eyes, I know I'm looking into the eyes of a thinking, feeling being. ____14____ I'll never know what she thinks about me. It's always a ____15____, there's always something to learn.

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　　The Canadian people are made up of different national races. The first known settlers of the country were the Indians.

　　It is believed that the Indians entered this continent ___1___ the Berlin Strait from eastern Asia at ___2___ 10,000 years ago. When Europeans first ___3___ the country, Indians were living in ___4___ of the forested areas. There were only a few Indians in the provinces ___5___ the Atlantic Ocean.

　　The second ___6___ of people to enter Canada were the Eskimos. They ___7___ the Berlin Strait from Asia less than 3,000 years ago. There are few ___8___ of their early movements.

　　The first white settlers in Canada were the French. They came in greatest ___9___ to Quebec, but also to Nova Scotia, where they cleared（清除）farms ___10___ the southern side of the Bay of Fundy（芬迪湾，位于加拿大和美国之间）.

　　The French built their citadel（城堡）at Quebec City, and cleared farms out of the forests in the area. By the ___11___ of the British conquest（征服）in 1763, there were about 60,000 Frenchmen in Canada, living chiefly ___12___ Quebec and Montreal.

　　There were not many British people in Canada until American Revolution ___13___ large numbers northward.

　　Throughout the 19th century, thousands of British people came to Canada. The descendants（后代）of these peoples from England, Scotland and Ireland now ___14___ up about half of the population. Around the turn of the century, people came ___15___ increasing numbers from Europe and the largest numbers came from Central and Eastern--Germans, Czechs, Poles, Romanians and Ukrainians.